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Computer Science
Brazil
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Computer Science D-index 59 Citations 15,516 222 World Ranking 2228 National Ranking 3

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Brazil Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Brazil Leader Award

2010 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • The Internet
  • Operating system
  • World Wide Web

His primary areas of study are World Wide Web, Workload, Internet privacy, Capacity planning and Operations research. Social network, Social graph, Spambot, Social spam and Spamming are the primary areas of interest in his World Wide Web study. His research in Social network intersects with topics in Session, News aggregator and Authentication.

Virgilio Almeida works mostly in the field of Workload, limiting it down to topics relating to The Internet and, in certain cases, Live streaming, Contrast, Multimedia and Object. His Internet privacy study incorporates themes from Word of mouth, Geolocation, Social Semantic Web and Web content. His Capacity planning research integrates issues from Page view, Software engineering and Systems engineering.

His most cited work include:

  • Characterizing user behavior in online social networks (689 citations)
  • Detecting Spammers on Twitter (562 citations)
  • Characterizing reference locality in the WWW (460 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns World Wide Web, The Internet, Internet privacy, Social media and Workload. His work carried out in the field of World Wide Web brings together such families of science as Popularity and Multimedia. His research investigates the connection with The Internet and areas like Computer network which intersect with concerns in E-commerce.

Specifically, his work in Internet privacy is concerned with the study of Information privacy. His research investigates the connection between Social media and topics such as Advertising that intersect with issues in Misinformation. His studies deal with areas such as Capacity planning, Server and Aggregate as well as Workload.

He most often published in these fields:

  • World Wide Web (29.83%)
  • The Internet (23.11%)
  • Internet privacy (19.75%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Internet privacy (19.75%)
  • The Internet (23.11%)
  • Misinformation (5.88%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Internet privacy, The Internet, Misinformation, Internet governance and Advertising. His Internet privacy research includes themes of Dissemination, Pipeline and Information Dissemination. His The Internet study introduces a deeper knowledge of World Wide Web.

His study focuses on the intersection of World Wide Web and fields such as Key with connections in the field of Aggregate and Layer. He works mostly in the field of Internet governance, limiting it down to topics relating to Computer security and, in certain cases, Cyberspace, as a part of the same area of interest. His Social media study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Online video and Social network.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter. (45 citations)
  • Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter (44 citations)
  • Auditing radicalization pathways on YouTube (43 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • The Internet
  • Operating system
  • World Wide Web

Virgilio Almeida mainly investigates Internet privacy, Lexicon, Misinformation, Internet governance and The Internet. Virgilio Almeida combines subjects such as Online video, Baseline and Selection with his study of Internet privacy. His Lexicon research includes elements of Semantic field, Word usage, Information retrieval and Set.

His work investigates the relationship between Misinformation and topics such as Social computing that intersect with problems in Conceptualization, Advertising and Expression. His Internet governance research incorporates themes from Computer security, Information privacy, Intelligent decision support system and Big data. His The Internet study frequently draws connections between related disciplines such as Regional science.

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Best Publications

Characterizing user behavior in online social networks

Fabrício Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Meeyoung Cha;Virgílio Almeida.
internet measurement conference (2009)

1149 Citations

Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, and Methods

Daniel A. Menascé;Virgílio A. F. Almeida.
(1998)

1130 Citations

Detecting Spammers on Twitter

Gabriel Magno;Tiago Rodrigues;Virg ´ ilio Almeida.
(2010)

1104 Citations

Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models, and Methods

Daniel A. Menasce;Virgilio Almeida.
(2001)

1018 Citations

Characterizing reference locality in the WWW

V. Almeida;A. Bestavros;M. Crovella;A. de Oliveira.
international conference on parallel and distributed information systems (1996)

783 Citations

A hierarchical characterization of a live streaming media workload

Eveline Veloso;Virgílio Almeida;Wagner Meira;Azer Bestavros.
IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking (2006)

775 Citations

Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example

Daniel A. Menasce;Lawrence W. Dowdy;Virgilio A. F. Almeida.
(2004)

750 Citations

Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling: From Mainframes to Client-Server Systems

Daniel A. Menascé;Virgílio A. F. Almeida;Larry W. Dowdy.
(1994)

473 Citations

A methodology for workload characterization of E-commerce sites

Daniel A. Menascé;Virgilio A. F. Almeida;Rodrigo Fonseca;Marco A. Mendes.
electronic commerce (1999)

401 Citations

Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks

Fabrício Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Virgílio Almeida;Jussara Almeida.
international acm sigir conference on research and development in information retrieval (2009)

297 Citations

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